Stupid Virtual Machines

[dude101]

Man I am so sick of hardware performance being crippled by interpreted byte code. If you want portability, just write portable C/C++ code and re-compile it to the target of your choice. It seems that the like more and more programmers don't even know what a register is.

[ucosty]

And your point is?

[NickJohnson]

It seems like your problem is not with virtual machines, but instead with the current education/expectations of computer programmers (which I agree with).

Some VMs have no registers, instead being stack based, and it is just as valid a method of computation. Additionally, you don't care about registers using C/C++, and you can't know about them to write portable code. It's a whole other issue that things like Java don't have *pointers* though, but that is arguable.

I think we all can probably agree that average programmer quality has gone down the tubes recently, but complaining about it does nothing - there's nowhere this thread can go other than a meaningless conversation and/or flamewar. You want to complain, get a blog.

[Combuster]

That or he was trolling.

In either case, locked since this is guaranteed flamefest-to-be.